1 He did not answer, and was to all appearances asleep.
2 But he was sick and weary; and he soon fell sound asleep.
3 Weary with watching and anxiety, he at length fell asleep.
4 Stretched upon a mattress on the floor, lay Noah Claypole, fast asleep.
5 'So am I,' said the tinker, waking up, as suddenly as he had fallen asleep.
6 Being very tired with his walk, however, he soon fell asleep and forgot his troubles.
7 Barney, having made all fast, rolled himself up as before, and was soon asleep again.
8 Mr. Giles directed an appealing glance at the tinker; but he had suddenly fallen asleep.
9 These, however, had no worse effect than causing her to rub her nose very hard, and then fall asleep again.
10 Being much tired with the walk, and getting up so early, he dozed a little at first; then, quite overpowered by fatigue and the fumes of the tobacco, fell asleep.
11 After a short absence, he returned with a lighted candle, and the intelligence that Toby Crackit was asleep in the back room below, and that the boys were in the front one.
12 The robber, after paying his reckoning, sat silent and unnoticed in his corner, and had almost dropped asleep, when he was half wakened by the noisy entrance of a new comer.
13 He had been poring over them for some time; and, as the day had been uncommonly sultry, and he had exerted himself a great deal, it is no disparagement to the authors, whoever they may have been, to say, that gradually and by slow degrees, he fell asleep.
14 As that day closed in, the girl's excitement increased; and, when night came on, and she sat by, watching until the housebreaker should drink himself asleep, there was an unusual paleness in her cheek, and a fire in her eye, that even Sikes observed with astonishment.
15 Having eased his mind by this discovery; and having accomplished his twofold object of imparting to the girl what he had, that night, heard, and of ascertaining, with his own eyes, that Sikes had not returned, Mr. Fagin again turned his face homeward: leaving his young friend asleep, with her head upon the table.